Long maneuvering king's indian battle with Jeevan Karamsetty
I won a long king's indian game against Jeevan Karamsetty from the USA in the 7th round of the Vezerkepto International Master Spring Tournament.
On the Kingside the position became blocked and balanced and on the queenside I had more space and slowly built up a pawn break.
I got a defended passed pawn on a6 and sacrificed a pawn by d5-d6 to be able to penetrate with my bishop on the light squares.
He sacrificed a pawn back to force the exchange of queens, but the endgame was quickly winning for me:
This was my 3rd victory in the tourney and all took more than 70 moves!
Can I win a quicker game today?
I will play with International Grandmaster Zoltan Varga from Hungary.
Rank after Round 7
| Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | ||
| 1 | 1 | GM | Neverov, Valeriy | UKR | 2414 | 5,5 | 20 | 20,50 | |
| 2 | 3 | IM | Krizsany, Laszlo | HUN | 2347 | 5 | 20,5 | 19,50 | |
| 3 | 2 | GM | Varga, Zoltan | HUN | 2384 | 4,5 | 21,5 | 19,00 | |
| 4 | 4 | IM | To, Nhat Minh | HUN | 2342 | 4,5 | 20,5 | 17,25 | |
| 5 | 6 | FM | Pham, Tran Gia Phuc | VIE | 2238 | 4,5 | 19,5 | 13,50 | |
| 6 | 10 | Turcsanyi, Vince Gergo | HUN | 2202 | 4 | 17 | 13,25 | ||
| 7 | 5 | IM | Turzo, Attila | HUN | 2288 | 3,5 | 20,5 | 11,25 | |
| 8 | 8 | FM | Xie, Felix | NZL | 2227 | 3,5 | 17,5 | 10,50 | |
| 9 | 16 | Laddha, Yash Jayesh | USA | 2067 | 3,5 | 16 | 9,00 | ||
| 10 | 12 | Otawa, Yuto | JPN | 2160 | 3,5 | 15 | 7,00 | ||
| 11 | 11 | Gandhi, Anish | IND | 2187 | 3 | 20 | 8,00 | ||
| 12 | 7 | FM | Zentai, Peter | HUN | 2238 | 3 | 15,5 | 7,25 | |
| 13 | WIM | Pandey, Srishti | IND | 2156 | 3 | 15,5 | 7,25 | ||
| 14 | 15 | AIM | Szalay-Ocsak, Bank | HUN | 2133 | 2 | 15,5 | 6,25 | |
| 15 | 9 | Karamsetty, Jeevan | USA | 2206 | 2 | 15,5 | 3,50 | ||
| 16 | 14 | WFM | Erdos, Boglarka | HUN | 2139 | 1 | 14,5 | 2,00 |
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I started my day with meditativon, prayer and reading the book How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation by Rudolf Steiner.
Then to support my body I went to run and did pushups.
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See you tomorrow!
Attila Turzo
International Master
